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Exposure Mapping Component (EMC) EMC-BUILT

The EMC-BUILT product consists of three datasets, including EMC-BUILT-S (gridded built-up surface estimates), EMC-BUILT-S-NRES (non-residential built-up surface estimates) and EMC-BUILT-GREENNESS (NDVI within and nearby the built-up domain). This global dataset has been produced for the year 2022 and is based on Sentinel-2 multispectral data.

Source details

Licence: GHSL data are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Evidence quality: 32.5

Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• arn:aws:s3:::jrc-ghsl/emc-built-s, arn:aws:s3:::jrc-ghsl/emc-built-s-nres, arn:aws:s3:::jrc-ghsl/emc-built-greenness
• https://registry.opendata.aws/emc-built/

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